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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| apprehensive | uneasy or fearful feeling about something that might happen |
| nurture | to care for and protect; to support and encourage |
| awed | filled with or expressing an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, and fear, produced by something grand, sublime, or powerful |
| transgression | violation of a law or command; sin |
| adherence | steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment |
| chastisment | discipline, especially by corporal punishment |
| rarity | something rare, unusual, or uncommon |
| bewildered | completely puzzled or confused; perplexed |
| nondescript | of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind |
| gravitate | to have a natural tendency or be strongly attracted |
| relinquish | to renounce or surrender |
| exuberant | effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic; lavishly abundant |
| invariably | always; without exception |
| meticulous | taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough |
| curb | to control as with a curb; restrain; check |
| aptitude | capability; ability; innate; or acquired capacity for something; talent |
| precision | accuracy; exactness |
| vibrant | characterized by perceptible vibration, resonant, resounding; (otherwise) exciting; simulating; lively |
| collective | of or characterized of a group of individuals taken together |
| capacity | power of receiving impressions, knowledge, etc; mental ability |
| exempt | free from an obligation or liability to which other are subject; release |
| unnerving | depriving of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; upsetting |
| excruciating | extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturous |
| successor | a person who follows or replaces another by descent, election, appointment or the like |
| exhilarate | to enliven, invigorate, stimulate; to make cheerful or merry |
| obsolete | no longer in general use; fallen to disuse |
| admonition | counsel, advice, or caution |
| fleeting | passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transitory |
| irrational | without the faculty of reason; deprived of reason |
| assimilate | to take in and incorporate as ones own; absorb |
| anguish | excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain: the anguish of grief |
| assuage | to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate |
| isolation | separation from other persons or things; aloneness; loneliness |
| ominous | portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious |
| release | free from confinement, bondage, obligation, or pain |
| carnage | the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre |
| ecstasy | an overpowering emotion or exaltation; a state of sudden, intense felling; rapturous delight |
| perceive | to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses; to recognize, discern, envision, or understnad |
| permeate | to pass into or every part of; to be diffused through; pervade; saturate |
| luminous | radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright |
| efficient | performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort; competent, capable |
| rueful | feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow or pity; mournful; doleful |
| emphatic | uttered with emphasis; strongly expressive |
| stealthy | done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive |
| sing-song | monotonously kingly in rhythm an patter of pitch |
| fugitive | a person who is fleeing from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway |
| augmented | made larger; enlarged in size, number, strength, or extent;increased |
| vigilant | keenly watchful and alert to detect danger; wary |
| diminish | to lessen; decrease |
| lethargy | the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy |
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